An end user evaluation of query formulation and results review tools in three medical meta-search engines

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 780-789

  Leroy, Gondy ^a   Xu, Jennifer ^b   Chung, Wingyan ^c   Eggers, Shauna ^d   Chen, Hsinchun ^d  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Informatics; Information storage and retrieval; Unified Medical Language System

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; ONLINE SEARCHING; OPTIMIZATION; QUERY PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

QUERY FORMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA BASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 35348864534     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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